I think the daisy cake is my favourite; the contrast is just so vivid. But they're all truly gorgeous.

@Dawn - my Dad often remarks "beautiful plumage" when he picks up one of his cats to stroke. I'm so used to it, despite it making no sense in that context, that I'd forgotten where it came from in the first place! Off to YouTube now I think...

I bet my daughter five bucks that in the first twenty comments some lovely Cake Wrecks reader would note the same thing I did. Hidden Mickeys in two of those gorgeous cakes! Sooooo, since no one else noted it already, here it is. There are Hidden Mickeys there. I said it first, but I'll bet I'm not the only Disney nut that thought it...

The one cake that you don't know, it's by this lady: http://blog.cakecoquette.com/ (http://www.cakecoquette.com/) If you go down about six posts on the blog, you can see where the ribbon cake was featured in Brides magazine. I LOVE her stuff! She does some great designs.

I love the daisy cake...and I love Johnnie too! Something Sweet Cake Studio is my favorite bakery in the world. Johnnie is wonderful to work with and makes the most amazing treats! I hope her cakes are never on a WRECK post!

I always enjoy perusing the cakes on your site. Usually just for the sake of a good laugh, but sometimes for some good ideas as well. Admittedly, I was a bit disappointed after reading the title "Modern Marvels" and then seeing wedding cakes. I was hoping for Marvel Comic cakes, but that's the geek in me. These are quite lovely, but now I have a hankering to see some good Marvel Comics cakes. Do you think that might come along some time soon?

I've taken a couple of classes from Richard of Baking Arts (the first cake shown) and the second class I took was learning to work with modeling chocolate - no easy task. He is an incredibly skilled artist!

I'm particularly impressed by the bottom edges of the ones not lined with some kind of bottom border, especially the sea-style one. It's hard to get bottom edges right; that's why most of us cheat with ribbons, rolled borders, piped borders, etc.

Minimalist wedding cakes seems like such a great idea! I mean, how easy would it be to fit one of these cakes in almost any wedding theme? :D And I'm glad there was a peacock cake in there; I'm rather fond of peacock designs that have been reinvented.

Unfortunately, I have to disagree with you on the wonderous nature of tall layers. My first job was at a reception hall where, among other duties, I cut wedding cakes. While tall layers may look stylish, they are pretty impossible to cut into even pieces. There is no cake server, and no cake plate, built for serving a slice of cake more than six inches tall. Even the ceremonial first bite of cake is a little too imposing to really look good. So from the moment it's cut open, the whole cake experience goes downhill.

Wait a minute. These are good cakes! Shoot! While they're certainly anything but wrecks, I guess I'd like to wreck 'em myself by snatching a piece off w/ my hands! lol (But I think security would throw me out of the party.)

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